Texas · Nonprofit
Crisis Assistance Center Inc dba Community Assistance Center
Crisis Assistance Center Inc dba Community Assistance Center (Texas) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,343,156 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Houston ($3,948,173). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $5.3M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Crisis Assistance Center Inc dba Community Assistance Center does
Mission
To provide emergency assistance to people in Montgomery County, TX who are in an unexpected crisis.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community Assistance Center (CAC) provides a variety of assistance options to Montgomery County residents that are in financial crisis. Many people in our county are a single instance away from finding themselves in a vulnerable situation that can cause tremendous financial hardship through job loss, reduction of wages, illness, etc. CAC aids its neighbors through assistance with rent or mortgage, utilities, emergency shelter, food, clothing, transportation, prescriptions, homeless care kits, summer stock kids' pantry, information & referral resources and an ID restoration ministry.
$1,821,579 spentof which $1,165,008 as grants93% of program spendingPermanent Supportive Housing (PSH) is a proven solution to homelessness for the most vulnerable of chronically homeless people. This program pairs affordable housing assistance, case management and supportive services to promote independent living and tenancy skills while connecting people with community-based health care, treatment and employment services. PSH is shown to improve health and well-being while providing a cost-effective solution to lower public costs associated with the use of crisis services such as shelters, hospitals, jails and prisons.
$139,325 spentof which $128,536 as grants7% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,960,904.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $3.2M to $1.5M (−55%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 14% · 2019 21% · 2020 43% · 2021 56% · 2022 53% · 2023 33% · 2024 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of Crisis Assistance Center Inc dba Community Assistance Center’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Jennifer Huffine
President/CEO
Board chair
Lisa Brooks
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 16 funders, grant income fell $559k → $518k.
11 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Crisis Assistance Center Inc dba Community Assistance Center’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Crisis Assistance Center Inc dba Community Assistance Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Crisis Assistance Center Inc dba Community Assistance Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 92% · 2019 83% · 2020 93% · 2021 66% · 2022 57% · 2023 52% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
46% of Crisis Assistance Center Inc dba Community Assistance Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
97% of Crisis Assistance Center Inc dba Community Assistance Center's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $317k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Crisis Assistance Center Inc dba Community Assistance Center is better cushioned than half of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Crisis Assistance Center Inc dba Community Assistance Center receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.4M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.4M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Crisis Assistance Center Inc dba Community Assistance Center
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Crisis Assistance Center Inc dba Community Assistance Center?
- Crisis Assistance Center Inc dba Community Assistance Center (Texas) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,343,156 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Houston ($3,948,173). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Crisis Assistance Center Inc dba Community Assistance Center have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $5,343,156 in grants to Crisis Assistance Center Inc dba Community Assistance Center, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Crisis Assistance Center Inc dba Community Assistance Center?
- United Way of Greater Houston is the largest funder on record, with $3,948,173 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Crisis Assistance Center Inc dba Community Assistance Center find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 33 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing